Writer: Pam Dillard, (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu Contact(s): Judy Tolk, (806) 356-5736, jtolk@ag.gov BUSHLAND Looking for ways to increase producer profits while conserving environmental resources drives modern agricultural science, say a trio of USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers at the Conservation and Production Laboratory at Bushland. Drs. Judy Tolk, plant physiologist, Steve Evett, soil scientist,…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contacts: Dr. David Worrall (817) 552-9941; Dr. Mark Lazar (806) 359-5401 BUSHLAND–Strides in developing resistance to the multiple stresses that annually confront the wheat crops of Texas and neighboring states were showcased here at a recent Panhandle Ag Day tour in May. The wheat breeding nurseries and test plots…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: O. R. “Reggie” Jones (806) 356-5745, orjones@ag.gov BUSHLAND — A long-term study by scientists at the USDA- Agricultural Research Service cropping field laboratory here shows that a fixed wheat- fallow-sorghum rotation is preferable to an “opportunity” cropping system . “We used 32 years of historical soil water and…
Writer: Steve Hill, (979) 845-2895, newsteam@agnews2.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. John Sij, (409) 752-2741, j-sij@tamu.edu John Campbell, (713) 388-1734, shrcd@iwl.net DANBURY — Despite unusually wet weather that slowed harvesting, an experimental kenaf plot in Brazoria County is making the crop’s future in Southeast Texas look bright. “You’re looking at a nice little profit,” said Don Tankersley of…
BRYAN — The drought of 1996 was devastating to many Texas cattle producers, but it’s also producing a myriad of opportunities to produce the kind of beef that pleases cusumers, according to a beef cattle expert at the recent Brazos Valley Cattlemen’s Clinic at the Bryan Livestock Commission Co. “As a result of that drought,…
BRYAN — If you grow a tough chicken, you make about eight or 10 people mad. If you produce a tough, tasteless cattle carcass, there are 542 people who are unhappy with their eating experience. At least, that’s the way Dr. Jeff Savell, professor of animal science at Texas A&M University, has it figured. “And…
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Ron Woolley, (817) 968-4144, r-woolley@tamu.edu Archie Abrameit, (512) 898-2214 THRALL — Ultra-narrow cotton rows, precision farming and other current agricultural research for Central Texas will be among the top issues discussed during the 34th Stiles Farm Foundation Field Day June 17. Field tours, walking tours and exhibits…
Writers: Pam Dillard, (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu, and Joe Bryant, (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: John Sweeten, (806) 359-5401, j-sweeten@tamu.edu BUSHLAND — This year’s Panhandle Ag Day will serve up a number of important messages for producers and scientists alike, say organizers of the field day event scheduled Thursday (May 22) at the Bushland Experiment Station, three-quarters…
Writers: Pam Dillard, (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu, Contact: John Sweeten, (806) 359-5401, j-sweeten@tamu.edu AMARILLO — The father of modern wheat varieties developed by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. Kenneth B. Porter of Amarillo, will be honored at the Panhandle Ag Day near Bushland on May 22. Porter, now in his 50th year of research and…
Contact: Pam Dillard, 806-359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu WHAT: Panhandle Agriculture Day WHEN: Thursday, May 22, 1997 8:30 a.m. Registration/Refreshments 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Field Day Program/Tours WHERE: USDA-ARS Southern Great Plains Conservation and Production Agricultural Research Laboratory and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, I-40 access road 3/4ths of a mile west of Bushland (10 miles west of Amarillo)….
